ZB 07 - Chemia w ograniczonej geometrii (V.Sashuk)

Welcome to Sashuk's Group !

Molecules are like humans - are born and die, get married and divorced, and when imprisoned do not give up but change their behavior.

Our research is mainly focused on the study of confined matter. We wonder how the chemical entities are affecting or being affected by the confined environment they create. In particular, we are interested in harnessing their modified properties for catalysis or self-assembly by translating them from the molecular level onto nanoscale (or even further) and vice versa. The confined systems we are currently dealing with include molecules and colloids entrapped by supramolecular cavities or self-assembled at interfaces.

 

 

 

 

News:

17.10.2024 - Our paper on suprazymes has been published in Chemical Science and featured on its cover !

03.09.2024 - Mykola Kravets for the third year in a row becomes a laureate of the competition "Young researchers of IPC PAS". Congratulations !!!

26.02.2024 - Two publications from our team were awarded as the institute's best publications in 2022. The collaborative work in Nature Communications received a distinction, and the work in Chemical Science took third place. Congratulations to all the authors!

23.02.2024 - The press release on the regulation of catalytic reactions by light, recently published in ACS Catalysis, is just out. Congratulations to all the authors!

08.02.2024 - The research conducted by Aleksandra Zasada and Dawid Lichosyt has been honored with the Best Poster Award at the 2024 microsymposium of the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS. Congratulations !!!

29.11.2023 - Our paper on the complete shutdown of catalysis using photoswitches is now published in ACS Catalysis!

28.11.2023 - Sandra Kosiorek defended her PhD thesis with distinction. Congratulations!!!

23.11.2023 - We received a grant (~1.9 million PLN) under the OPUS program from the National Science Centre of Poland.

17.08.2023 - Mykola Kravets for the second year in a row becomes a laureate of the competition "Young researchers of IPC PAS". Congratulations !!!

29.06.2023 - We are pleased to announce the receipt of research funding (~1.7 million PLN) within the joint program of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences. The project will be implemented in cooperation with the team of Professor V. Nazarenko from the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

22.06.2023 - Mykola Kravets defended his PhD thesis with distinction. Congratulations !!!

21.02.2023 - We are proud that our recent paper in Chem. Sci. was included in the collection of "Most popular 2022 supramolecular chemistry articles".

01.02.2023 - Agata Tyszka-Gumkowska joins our group. Welcome !!!

01.02.2023 - Nazar Rad leaves our group. We wish you success in your new research !!!

01.12.2022 - We are happy to announce that our recent Nat. Commun. article was featured by the editor as one of the best papers published in the area of inorganic and physical chemistry.

10.11.2022 - Our new collaborative paper with Prof. Hołyst's group, Prof. Huck, and Prof. Antosiewicz was published in Nat. Commun.

18.10.2022 - Our paper on controlling competitive inhibition and beyond is now an advance article in ChemSci.

30.08.2022 - Mykola Kravets became the laureate of the "Young researchers of IPC PAS" competition. Congratulations !!!

26.08.2022 - Nataliya left our group. We wish you success in your new profession!

28.04.2022 - Pillar[4]pyridinium is back in action. Our research on recognizing geometric isomers has just been published in Langmuir and made the cover.

07.04.2022 - Our paper on the effect of alkali metal cations on supramolecular catalysis by cucurbituril is now online in ChemComm.

01.04.2022 - Two more collaborative papers with dr. hab Oksana Danylyuk in Cryst.Growth.Des. and CrystEngComm are just out.

21.03.2022 - Nataliya Oshchapovska received funding from PAS for a short-time stay in our team. Welcome to the group!!!

01.03.2022 - Aleksandra Zasada joins our team. Welcome!!!

06.12.2021 - Our paper on the discrimination of phthalic acid isomers published last year in ChemComm took 2^nd place in the competition for the best publication of our institute in 2020. Congratulations to all the co-authors !!!

01.12.2021 - Dawid Lichosyt received Sonata grant from NCN and joins our group. Welcome!!!

23.11.2021 - Sandra Kosiorek became the laureate of the "Young researchers of IPC PAS" competition. Congratulations !!!

13.05.2021 - Our article on the discrimination of homologous dicarboxylates has just been accepted in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.

21.04.2021 - We are pleased to announce our new collaborative papers with dr. O. Danylyuk (CrystEngComm1, CrystEngComm2), dr. M. Potopnyk (Org. Biomol. Chem.) and dr. M. Wiloch (ChemElectroChem).

26.03.2021 - Magda Szewczyk leaves our group. We wish you all the best in your future career !!!

01.03.2021 - For our recent paper on the synthesis of thiolated Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts and their utilization in visible-light reversible nanoparticle self-assembly see J.Phys.Chem. C.

24.02.2021 - Pavlo Hyziuk is our new teammate. Welcome to the group !!!

11.02.2021 - Magda Szewczyk defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations !!!

18.01.2021 - Our minireview on photoswitchable catalysis by nanoparticles has appeared in ChemCatChem and decorated the front cover of the upcoming issue. Great job Grzegorz !!!

07.12.2020 - Our last year's Angewandte Chemie article has been chosen as one of the best papers published in 2019. Congratulations to Nazar and Oksana !!!

18.11.2020 - Grzegorz Sobczak became the laureate of the "Young researchers of IPC PAS" competition. Congratulations !!!

11.08.2020 - Our studies on visual recognition of phthalic acid isomers made the cover of the latest Chemical Communications issue !!!

22.05.2020 - We received new research funding (1,6 mln PLN) from the National Science Centre.

22.05.2020 - A bunch of new papers appeared in collaboration with Prof. R. Hołyst (Biosens. Bioelectron) and dr O. Danylyuk (CrystEngComm1, CrystEngComm2).

24.02.2020 - Our recent research on supramolecular catalysis by pillar[n]arenes has been published in a special collection of ChemCatChem entitled Chemistry in Confined Spaces

09.12.2019 - Nazar received his first research funding (~44 kPLN) from the National Science Centre. Congratulations !!!

24.07.2019 - Sandra, Magda and Grzegorz have won the "Young researchers of IPC PAS" competition. Congratulations !!!

17.06.2019 - Our manuscript entitled "Reversing Chemoselectivity: Simultaneous Positive and Negative Catalysis by Chemically Equivalent Rims of a Cucurbit[7]uril Host" has just been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie !!!

01.02.2019 - Karol Wróblewski defends his BSc thesis. Congratulations !!!

01.11.2018 - We have a new member. Mykola, welcome to the team !!!

11.06.2018 - Our new paper entitled "Pillar[6]pyridinium: a hexagonally-shaped molecular box that selectively recognizes anionic species" has been published in Chemical Communications !!!

23.02.2018 - Our manuscript entitled "Photoswitchable Catalysis by a Small Swinging Molecule Confined on the Surface of a Colloidal Particle" is ASAP now in ACS Catalysis !!!

01.01.2018 - Two new people Karol Wróblewski and Piotr Ostapowicz have just joined our group. Welcome !!!

22.12.2017 - Our ChemComm paper on pillar[4]pyridinium has been highlighted with a Chemistry World news article.

22.12.2017 - Marek Kamiński defends his master's thesis. Congratulations !!!

14.12.2017 - Our research on pillar[4]pyridinium made the cover of the latest issue of Chemical Communications !!!

27.11.2017 - Our manuscript entitled "Pillar[4]pyridinium: a square-shaped molecular box" has been just accepted for publication in Chemical Communications.

09.10.2017 - Our article "Triggering autocatalytic reaction by host-guest interactions" was awarded in the competition for the best work of the Institute published in 2016.

01.09.2017 - Nazar Rad just joined our group. Welcome !!!

19.06.2017 - Volodymyr Sashuk completes his habilitation. Congratulations !!!

15.05.2017 - We have just received a research grant (1.3 mln PLN) from the National Science Centre.

01.03.2017 - Marek Kamiński begins working on his Master's thesis. Welcome to the team.

07.02.2017 - Our new paper "Submicron Colloidosomes of Tunable Size and Wall Thickness" is ASAP now in Langmuir.

10.10.2016 - Grzegorz Sobczak was admitted to PhD studies. Congratulations!!!

01.10.2016 - We welcome Helena Butkiewicz as a new member of our team.

27.09.2016 - Koncrad Rogaczewski has received his bachelor's degree. Congratulations!!!

15.09.2016 - Grzegorz Sobczak has earned his master's degree. Congratulations!!!

29.08.2016 - Our paper "A halogen-free synthesis of gold nanoparticles using gold(III) oxide" was just published in Journal of Nanoparticle Research.

21.06.2016 - Grzegorz Sobczak was awarded for the presentation of his master thesis at the poster session of University of Warsaw. Congratulations!!!

08.04.2016 - Our next paper "Host–guest complexes of cucurbit[6]uril with the trypanocide drug diminazene and its degradation product 4-aminobenzamidine" was accepted to publication in CrystEngComm.

23.03.2016 - Another paper "A Thermo- and Photo-Switchable Ruthenium Initiator For Olefin Metathesis" was published in Chemistry - A European Journal.

16.02.2016 - Our first paper "Triggering autocatalytic reaction by host-guest interactions" has just appeared in Chemical Communications.

04.01.2016 - Finally we started our group. There we go !!!